Contract - Project Manager (Connected Services)

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work.  The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday.  However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home 2 days per week, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role:
Responsible for the successful delivery of key artefacts required for the GC5.0 Programme of work. This includes planning, execution, and delivery of activities in collaboration with internal stakeholders, HM and external development partners. The role requires strong leadership, communication, and coordination skills to ensure that project goals are met on time and within budget.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning and execution of activities involving third-party development teams.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources effectively using company agreed tooling eg. MSP, Excel, KeyedIn, Jira.
• Own/update the project team’s use of Confluence.
• Coordinate with external vendors and internal teams to ensure alignment and timely delivery.
• Monitor project progress and adjust plans as needed to meet objectives.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Ensure quality assurance and compliance with internal standards.
• Monitor, Manage Change requests, understand impact and suggest way forward.
• Reporting
  
  • Provide status reports on progress.
  • Input into Programme/Steering board updates.

Stakeholder management

• Map and manage stakeholders across impacted business units and external partners.
  
  • Input into Programme RACI    
• Collaborate with end users and stakeholders to align project goals with business needs.

Scope management

• Ensure project goals align with business objectives and defined scope.
• Apply change management processes to control scope.
• Review project proposals to assess timelines, resources, and constraints.

Cost management

• Estimate workload based on the scope and activities defined in the Work Breakdown Structure.
• Monitor the budget using Earned Value Management Technique.
• Define actions when applicable to stay within the approved cost baseline.
• Update the budget and reforecast as necessary
  
  • Actively looking at ways to reduce costs with no impact to the programme.

Schedule management

• Develop project strategies, plans, and tools.
• Assign resources and responsibilities across project phases.
• Monitor progress, resolve issues, and ensure timely delivery.

Procurement management

• Coordinate the procurement activities to define the Procurement Management Plan.
• Work with Procurement department to make the appropriate decision on vendor and/or solution.
• Execute Control Procurement activities to assess whether vendor is delivering according to contract terms and conditions.

Risk management

• Actively engage with HM (GO), HME, 3rd Party vendors, interface SMEs to identify, analyse, document, manage/mitigate risks to the project
  
  • Develop project strategies, plans, and tools.
  • Assign resources and responsibilities across project phases.
  • Monitor progress, resolve issues, and ensure timely delivery.

Communication management

• Develop project strategies, plans, and tools.
  
  • Input into current plan and ensure all stakeholders aligned
• Assign resources and responsibilities across project phases.
• Monitor progress, resolve issues, and ensure timely delivery.

Quality management

• Develop quality assurance test plans in conjunction with Test Manager.
• Direct quality assurance testing.
• Lead the effort in creative approaches to problem solving and quality deliverables supporting business needs. 

Qualifications, skills and experience required:

• Proven experience managing digital projects with third-party development teams.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and project management frameworks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with digital platforms such as CRM, CMS, or mobile applications.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with collaborative tools like Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in automotive, retail, or consultancy sectors is a plus.
• Project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) is desirable.

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda also encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual.

At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non-discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. We strive to foster a culture of belonging that is consistent with Honda's core values and lived out in the way we work and respect each other. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers.

This commitment flows directly from the Honda philosophy and the belief that we are all working towards a common goal. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.